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Housing in Melrose

A typical Melrose home is worth roughly $79,000

Typical home value
$79K
NM $318K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$970
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$215
NM $1,731

What kind of housing town is Melrose?

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★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Melrose

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You could afford about
$256,000
Typical Melrose home $79K

That covers a typical Melrose home, with $178K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$460
Loan $390Tax $50Insurance $20

A two-bedroom rents for about $970 a month here, $510 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the New Mexico typical property tax (0.70% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $970

Renters already here pay a median of $833, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$670
1 bedroom$790
2 bedrooms$970
3 bedrooms$1,270
4 bedrooms$1,640
25%
of households rent · NM 30%
48
renter households
$833
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Curry County, NM): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

The homes

75% of Melrose households own their home

Half of Melrose’s homes were built before 1961.

Owners and renters
Own 75%Rent 25%

New Mexico: 70% own.

1961
typical home built · NM 1985
$215
median property tax bill · NM $1,731
2%
of homes are seasonal or vacation homes

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.

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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.

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